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A Sword Against the Ammonites

28 You, son of man, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach, and say,

The sword, the sword is drawn,
    furbished for the slaughter,
to cause it to consume
    that it may be like lightning,
29 while they see vanity for you,
    while they divine a lie to you
to bring you upon the necks
    of the wicked who are slain,
whose day has come
    in the time of the punishment of the end.

30 Return it to its sheath.
    I will judge you
in the place where you were created,
    in the land of your nativity.
31 I will pour out My indignation upon you;
    I will blow against you in the fire of My wrath,
and deliver you into the hand of cruel men,
    skilled in destruction.
32 You shall be fuel to the fire;
    your blood shall be in the midst of the land.
You shall be no more remembered,
    for I the Lord have spoken.

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